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[Sheldon Cooper]

226. I appreciate that you are willing to honestly examine your behavior and thought processes.

I understand that you are trying to explain your attitudes about sex at that stage in your life. It's not easy to take a hard look at yourself and own up to your behavior. I gather that you don't now consider those women to be sluts, and you now understand that you won't die if you don't get to stick your penis into a woman. You are taking a lot of crap in this thread for your comments, and they really are quite vile, but I recognize that you are not the same person today that you were then.

I went to school in the 70s as well. While I don't think your behavior was the norm, it was certainly there. The attitude held by many was that women really were consenting to sex simply by showing up at the party. I can still remember the poor woman who got drunk and ended up pulling a train at the frat house. The men thought she was a great sport, the women knew better. She left school shortly after and never returned. I'm quite certain that none of those fraternity 'men' considered themselves a rapist, certainly not then or probably not now.

I appreciate that you are willing to discuss your behavior and call for more education of today's young men. As you may tell from my screen name, I am a fan of The Big Bang Theory television show. One of the characters, Howard, is a pathetic geek who is constantly trying to score with the ladies. He mentions to his friend and fellow geek Raj that when going to the bar, they have to wait until the jocks and lawyers snap up all the pretty girls, and then they will be able to ply the leftover ugly girls with enough booze to allow them to get in their pants. Luckily he was unsuccessful in his approach, so this type of behavior wasn't rewarded. As much as I love this show, that scene makes me cringe because it propogates the rape culture that is so prevalent in our society.

Education for young men on what rape is should be happening on college campuses and really anyplace where young men congregate. We'll probably never stop the psychopaths that lurk in the bushes, but we can possibly stop the men who believe as you once did.

Again, thanks for starting the discussion.